Speakers & Topics

Andreas Wintersteiger - CST, CEO-Objectbay

Title: Agile In Business - Past, Present and Future

India celebrates its half a decade experience of implementing Agile and catches up with the world,where Agile Implementation started a decade ago. UNICOM and Andreas has helped many companies in India to implement Scrum and has gone through the rigour across various sectors in the Agile implementation journey from Maturity to Evolution & Innovation adopted by various companies.

In his opening speech Andreas will share his journey and talk about the current reality and future trends in India.

Gaurav Marwah - Sr Project Manager, Nucleus Software Exports Ltd

Title: Benefits of Agile Tools in Agile Implementation

Learn the innovation done at Nucleus Software during their Agile Implementation in India.Gaurav led the team that deployed various open source tools and developed an inhouse integrated suite of Agile Tools that is now used accross dispersed teams.

Manish Sinha, CSM, MCP, MCAD

Title: Writing Agile Software Development Contracts

Mr. Manish is a Certified Scrum Master and Six Sigma Green Belt. Mr. Manish is also a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Application Developer. He has exposure to pre-sales and marketing of IT services to customers. He has hands on experience with leading high performance distributed scrum teams. He has been a premier speaker at many international Agile related conferences.

Saurabh represents senior management of Nucleus Software where decision to implement Agile was taken in 2011.Saurabh will bring senior management perspective in their Agile journey via case study.

Parveen Garg - Senior Manager, Ericcson

Title: Leader’s role in Agile transformationIs your organization moving towards adopting Agile? What is the role of the Leader in the Agile Transformation and adoption?How a leader helps in making Agile Successful?How the organization can use the leaders to promote Agile?

Gopal Mohan Gupta- Senior Manager, Ericcson

Title: Leader’s role in Agile transformationIs your organization moving towards adopting Agile? What is the role of the Leader in the Agile Transformation and adoption?How a leader helps in making Agile Successful?How the organization can use the leaders to promote Agile?Why adoption of Agile fails?

About The Event

The Agile Business Conference is a major, one-day annual event held in Delhi, providing a single forum for everyone interested in the effective application of Agile across the Public and Private Sectors.

Throughout the decade we have continually evolved and adapted to provide a unique forum for business, management and technical personnel to learn, share knowledge, network and source Agile Services.

And so our theme this year reflects the First Agile Decade; the maturity, evolution and reality of Agile as the de-facto standard for the management, development and delivery of Projects, Programmes and Products in the 21st Century, in the Public and Private Sectors. Agile Management is a way of managing projects to deliver customer value via adaptive planning, rapid feedback, continuous improvement and intense human interaction and collaboration.

This conference provides you with the opportunity to meet with experts, attend keynote presentations, participate in workshops and interactive sessions, and network with experienced Business and Technical practitioners who are already delivering Agile across organisations.

Learn about established Agile management philosophies and qualifications, leadership in an Agile environment and how to overcome the challenges in adopting Agile – including Agile in highly regulated sectors.

Who Should Attend

This event is relevant to any organisation in any sector that is evaluating or embarking on an Agile Change Programme or that has already undergone change and would like to learn from and/or contribute to the sessions. It is also relevant to any organisation seeking to understand how good governance is implemented in an agile environment.

Some of the job roles and functions that will benefit from attending include:

Benefits To Attendees

Hear best practices and case studies

Learn from experts who are passionate about software testingNetwork with your peersFind out about new software testing tools and servicesTake part in interactive panels and get information fit for your purposesLeave with fresh ideas on how to approach your software testing challenges.

Time & Venue

Invite For Speakers

Leading Industry Experts across the globe, are invited to share their expertise in the area of Agile.

Imp Information & Dates

Last date to express your interest to be a Speaker by email.Email us at: contact@unicomlearning.com

20-10-2012

Last date for submission of topic title and a page write-up to Unicom

30-10-2012

Notification of acceptance and formal invite to shortlisted Speakers by Unicom:

10-11-2012

Last date for submission of final presentation by shortlisted speakers to Unicom:

15-11-2012

Note: The paper submitted in this forum should be original.

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